Towel Drills Back in 2009!

Love the Cubs? Have an opinion? Want to express it in a forum read by dozens of Cubs fans on a bi-annual basis?
Then we're looking for you.

Hate getting paid to do stuff? Live in your parent's basement? Think you know more than everyone else, so much so that you create your own forum to prove it? Then we're also looking for you.

Towel Drills started last year as a way for a few friends to share their Cubs rants with even more friends. Somewhere along the line, you, Cubs Fan, started paying attention. Before long, Towel Drills was bigger than Jebus. And now we're asking for your help to continue to grow TD into the Blogawesomeosphere.

TD is looking to take on a few additional writers for the upcoming season. We need people who can commit to posting on a regular basis and who have access to post throughout the day. We're specifically seeking at least one "news man" who can post breaking Cubs news the segundo it drops. Freedom to also write about what interests you in relation to the Cubs we can offer. Any other form of payment, monetary, seshual, or other, we cannot (but only b/c the seshual thing is illegal).

If you're interested in trying your hand at blogging, hit us up at toweldrills@gmail.com. How you "apply" is up to you. Send us some writing, some ideas, an 8x10 glossy of Ronnie Woo Woo (please, don't), send bags of cash (please, do)-your call. We're looking forward to adding some talent to the staff and to continue making TD the best gosh darn TD it can be!

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A bit off topic here, but I had to pass this along. This article by SI's Tom Verducci is absolutely one of the most interesting things I've read, on any topic, in a long while. It's an article about San Francisco SP Tim Lincecum and his unusual, but highly effective, pitching mechanics. For some visual evidence of what the article is discussing, check out this "Mechanics of Baseball" video-it's one of a series that Baseball Prospectus's Will Carroll did for MLB.com last year. The video gives a very detailed breakdown of Lincecum's mechanics and shows video comparisons to Roy Oswalt and Sandy Kofax.

If ya need me to tie this back into the Cubs, then check out the 4th page of the article, beginning in the 4th paragraph. TD namesake Mark Prior gets some play in the article-but, um, it's not exactly glowing praise of his so-called "perfect mechanics." There's also a nice bit in there about how the Cubs passed up on Lincecum, as well as Matt Cain, Joe Blanton, Jon Lester and Jonathon Broxton, in the Cubs absolutely terrible 2002 draft to take friggin' Bobbie Brownlie.

I'm going to go ahead and call this article a must read. It's a bit long, but really, take a few minutes and give it a read. You'll be glad you did.